The Ojibwa dialects are spoken by nearly 50,000 people across Canada and into
the U.S., from southwestern Quebec through Ontario, Michigan, northern Wisconsin
and Minnesota, southern Manitoba, and southern Saskatchewan. They are well
documented and work continues actively. Major published grammatical descriptions
include Nicholas in Daviault 1995, Belcourt 1839, Baraga 1850, Cuoq 1866, 1891-2,
Wilson 1874, Chamberiain 1891, Dumouchel & Brachet 1942, Hohner 1953a, Bloom-
field 1958, Rogers 1964, Todd 1970, Rhodes 1976, Nichols 1980. Dictionaries include
Baraga 1853, Cuoq 1886, International Colportage Mission 1903/1907, Lemoine 1909,
Campbell 1940, Nichols 1973, Nichols & Nyholm 1976, 1995, Johnston 1979, Piggott
& Grafstein 1983, Rhodes 1985, McGregor 1987. Piggott 1980 and Shrofel 1981
describe phonology, Malone 1997 reduplication, and Rhodes 1990 obviation. Texts
are in Josselin de Jong 1913a, Jones 1917, Bloomfield 1958, Quill 1965, a bilingual
newsletter (Nichols & Nyholm 1976-), Kegg 1991 (with a wordlist and grammatical
notes), and especially Nichols 1988 and Bloomfield & Nichols 1991. A particulariy
rich docimientation of dialects, with comparative texts, is in Valentine 1994.
Mithun, Marianne. 1999. The Languages of Native
North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
